Site Details

To learn more about the Man Makes Fire mission, check out our About page.

Site Rules:

When you comment on the site, keep it civil. If your comments start to resemble the hate-laden drivel you see on YouTube or most any article on most news sites, we’ll start deleting comments and/or get rid of them altogether. The idea is to help others, not call names or gloat. If you don’t immediately understand this, go away.

Site Terms of Use:

By using this site, you agree to abide by the site rules.

By using this site, you understand that you are responsible for yourself and others around you when it comes to adventuring or anything vaguely dangerous. Seriously, if you can’t recognize danger or dangerous situations and are not supremely confident that you can be safe, GO AWAY. Find a site that caters to silliness and blamers.

Site Privacy and Contact Information:

By registering and joining this site, which allows you to comment on posts, among possible future features, you agree to let Man Makes Fire contact you for administrative purposes, man-to-man notes, thank-yous, heads-up thoughts, and some communications around things you might want, like Man Makes Fire gear. How often? Not that often. We’re all about respect here, and we’ll do our best to a) let you enjoy the site without feeling like you’re being bugged and bombarded, and b) sell enough cool gear and ads so that we can keep delivering a great experience.

As for your Privacy, we won’t sell or rent your personally identifiable information to any third party.

Site Advertising and Affiliate Programs:

Man Makes Fire participates in advertising programs that deliver display and text-based ads to this site, in addition to some carefully selected affiliate marketing programs from organizations and merchants that we believe can deliver a great consumer buying experience to our readers.

Required Man Makes Fire affiliate disclosures:

Man Makes Fire is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Man Makes Fire is a participant in the L.L.Bean affiliate program.

In affiliation with The Orvis Company, Inc.: “The Orvis Company, Inc. is pleased to have Man Makes Fire as a member of the Orvis Affiliate Network. We have agreed to ship products and provide customer service for orders we receive through special links on Man Makes Fire. We hope you enjoy our broad assortment of products.”